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I'. J. HERRIGK.

l HEEL PRGTEGTOB..

No. 351,915. PatentedNov. 2, 1886.

F 'Mj/m (fwvM-z UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK J. HERRIOK, OF NEW' BRITAINMCONNEOTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HOW- ARD C. NOBLE, OF SAME PLACE.

HEEL-PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,915, dated November 2, 1886.

lNo model.)

To all whom. it 77mg/ concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK J. HEERICK, of New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Heel Protectors, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, where- Figure l is a' side view of a heel-protector embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a top view of the saine. Fig. 3 is a view of the same in cross-section on the plane x x. `All on enlarged scale. f

This improvement is, as its name indicates, a device for protecting the heel of a boot or slice from wear.

The letter a indicates the protector proper, made of metal, preferably hardened iron or steel. lt bears upon its face or top the raised point b, which -serves the double purpose of a frictional device, and for a time preventing` the leather from comingin contact with the surface on which the boot or shoe is supported. i

The protector a is round and peripherally corrugated, as well seen in Fig. l. tended that the hole in the heel which receives this protector shall be slightly smaller in diameter than is the diameter of this protector, so that when it is forced into its seat the leather or rubber, or the like, will close into the peripheral corrugations on the surface of the protector a, tend-ing to hold it tirmlyin place and tending to prevent moisture from Vvent it from being tipped or canted.

It iS npenetrating the heel along the side surface of the protector.

The letter c denotes what I will term a vnail,7 combined with and attached to` the readily understood that this nail will have a 45 tendency to prevent-the protector from escaping directly from its socket, to preventit from being moved laterally, and especially to pre'- The nail c is longitudinally iiuted or corrugated, as illustrated in Fig. 2. These iiutes or corrugat-ions on the surface of the nail c closely intermesliing, as they do, with the leather of the heel, have the tendency to prevent the protector from turning readily in its seat, and they have also another important advantage, in that when driven near the edge ofthe heel they lessen the tendency to bulge the heel peripherally.

I claim as my improvement- The round peripherally-corruC ated heelprotector c, bearing on its under side the liuted nail c, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth. f

FRANK J. HERRICK.

Vitnesses:

WM. E. SrMoNns, A. C. TANNER. 

